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queerhawkeye: bakongo: “To J.K. Rowling, From Cho…

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queerhawkeye: bakongo: “To J.K. Rowling, From Cho Chang” Video here: [x] Full transcription here: [x][Caption: a set of eight gifs where Rachel Rostad, the author of the poem, is speaking on a microphone. She is frowning, indignant, maybe angry. “Ms. Rowling, I know you’re just the latest participant in a long tradition of turning Asian women into a tragic fetish. Madame Butterfly. Japanese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Miss Saigon. Vietnamese woman falls in love with a white soldier, is abandoned, kills herself. Memoirs Of A Geisha. Lucy Liu in leather. Schoolgirl porn.” At this, she shrugs; “Let me fulfill your diversity quota. Just one more brown girl mourning her white hero. No wonder Harry Potter’s got yellow…

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refinery29: You Need To Know This Pole Dancer’s Self-Confidence…

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refinery29: You Need To Know This Pole Dancer’s Self-Confidence Secrets In her own words, pole dancer and fitness trainer Roz “The Diva” Mays is where she is today by way of a miracle. “If you’d have told me during that first pole-dancing class…” (which, she adds, kicked her ass completely) “…[that] I would eventually be leading classes of my own all around the country, and would have ended up on TV four times doing this, I would have slapped the shit out of you,” she laughs. READ MORE

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alongcameabutterfly: fats: fats: PLUS SIZE CLOTHING SIZE 28…

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alongcameabutterfly: fats: fats: PLUS SIZE CLOTHING SIZE 28 AND UP!!!!  This post is my baby. I update it constantly and I’m just so proud of it, and recently I gave it an overhaul and added 3 new stores!!!  Enjoy <3</p> Ps- you can get the shirt I’m wearing at fatgirlflowstore.com – the website is still being worked on and we’re still adding photos and descriptions but I figured I’d tell y’all first ? this. is. everything.

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abundantbodies: We need community support in order to make sure…

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abundantbodies: We need community support in order to make sure all our presenters and panelists can make it to Detroit for the Conference in June. At our $3000 goal, we would be able to provide a small stipend for all involved AND host a large-scale event where presenters, panelists, and attendees will have a space safe for fellow beautiful, body accepting and abundant bodies.CHECK OUT OUR INDIEGOGO CAMPAIGN & DONATE TODAY: https://igg.me/at/abundantbodies2016/x/10894446

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painandcats: hallofmirrorzz: Cripple Punk photo by…

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painandcats: hallofmirrorzz: Cripple Punk photo by @woodenpunkphoto [image: a pale person with dark hair and tattoos is sitting in a wheelchair. they’re wearing all black, and a black beanie. they’re sitting at a busy street corner.  it is during the day.  the camera is focused on the person in the wheelchair and everyone else in the background is blurred.]